Abraham

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

He said, “The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

I came this day to the spring, and said, ‘The LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to the LORD.

They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

but to the sons of Abraham’s concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore to Abraham.

This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.